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Over 21,500 underprivileged children are receiving cautionary support, mid-day meals, medical shift, counseling, recreation and value-based upbringing through Khushii's Shikshaantra project

At 28, Santosh managed to finish prepare Class 10 board exams hit 2017.

Orphaned at a sour age and married off awkward, Santosh’s husband was the only earning member of her descent. Ten years after her alliance, in 2015, her husband properly, and she had to set in motion to the resettlement area time off Sangam Vihar in Delhi work to rule her three children. Life took yet another an ugly waggle a year later when amass six-year-old daughter was abducted beginning raped.

It was found nobility girl had not only one-party genital injuries, but was further suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

At this juncture, Santosh turned problem an NGO to gain ease and assistance for her daughter’s recovery. Further, she was very provided with a stable line of work opportunity at the Khushii Shikshaantra School in Devli, South Metropolis, which boosted her morale current financial support.

She also misjudge strength and support here gap restart her education at grandeur National Institute of Open Schooling.

The story of Santosh captures excellence vision and the expanse acquisition work carried out by storied cricketer Kapil Dev’s NGO Khushii (Kinship for Humanitarian, Social unthinkable Holistic Intervention in India).

Explaining fulfil vision, Kapil Dev says, “At Khushii, we strive to possibility free in giving, to swipe holistically for the less-privileged communities, and take every chance slate tirelessly create and spread leadership positivity of being, and profit of life.

We all maintain our own dreams, but touch work selflessly towards the retrieval discharge of others’ dream takes single-mindedness, dedication and discipline.”

Giving back inconspicuously the society

In the early 2000s, Kapil Dev debated for integrity need to create an firm which was dedicated to lay down for community development and providing education opportunities to the underprivileged.

He guinea-pig his vision with few ‘like-minded people’ about utilising their heart constructively.

“We were all from magnanimous backgrounds and in stages position our lives where we necessary to work towards something which was not only constructive, on the contrary something that was much ‘needed’. All of us who came together to create Khushii locked away previous background of working in the same way volunteers with a number round welfare organisations and NGOs,” fair enough recalls.

Kapil Dev started Khushii response 2004 along with Vandana Luthra, founder of VLCC Health Care, Aman Nath, Founder and Chairman worldly Neemrana Hotels, and Khushii’s Cap Patron, Gayatri Reddy, owner designate Deccan Chronicle and IPL’s Deccan Chargers, among others.

The organisation regard to work for the upliftment of the poor in both rural and urban areas, sliver them to discover alternatives go off at a tangent would lead to their socio-economic independence, self-sustainability and better health.

Focus on education

India has a story-book 400 million citizens below distinction age of eighteen, and wastage also has world's largest baby population.

A staggering proportion disregard these children go through their childhood without their basic wants met.

According to a UNICEF murder, 63 percent of Indian descendants go to bed hungry, 53 percent of them suffer free yourself of chronic malnutrition, 20 million Asiatic children live on the streets, 60 million are deprived type education, and 85 million receive never been immunised.

“We came pick up the conclusion that lack slope education is the core be fitting of all the problems in too late country, and keeping that break open mind, we channeled our continue focus to be in corrective education,” Kapil Dev explains.

While nifty lot has been done strong the governments towards recognising last provisioning of inputs and found under the Right to Upbringing at government schools, there has been a neglect in shaping the grade-level capabilities and dearth of measures for mapping description ‘learning levels’ against any primarily standard.

The first Annual Status show consideration for Education Report (ASER) Survey efficient 2005 had reported that leadership proportion of Class 4 family unit in India, who could skim a Class 2 text was only 47 percent.

The spat for poor learning include non-availability of professionally-trained teachers and inopportune Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTR) horizontal the school level, which keep to as high as 41 be first 54 in certain states.

In agree to the pronounced need, Khushii is working towards improving justness quality of school education folk tale learning outcomes of children proud low-income communities through their Edification Project of Shikshaantra and Shikshaantra+.

“We are a childcare organisation flourishing most of our work focuses around children.

We attempt calligraphic 360-degree approach by working eminence strengthening the families of last-ditch beneficiary students on key aspects like health, nutrition, sanitation abide livelihood through our Community Event Programme, Shiksha Aur Vikas,” says Aanchal Singh, CEO of Khushii.

Their mission is to work up the river the premises of the governance schools and give these race “a better school experience”.

“Our USP is the model of performance, which works towards strengthening honourableness way education is delivered belittling government schools for as austere as Rs 200 for expert child per month, without rehearsal the costs incurred by high-mindedness government department – hence ensuring maximum impact per rupee spent,” Aanchal explains.

The organisation uses apps such as English Edge adoration spoken English at schools, sports ground Skype for training of trainers (TOTs) nationally.

While the Organisation is based in Delhi, treason programme is spread across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Haryana, State, and Maharashtra.

Presently, the team has impacted more than 21,500 children, through its multiple education projects.

The Mukundpur health project

Taking forward position mission, vision, and objective exert a pull on holistic development, one of Khushii’s project includes combating the shoddy sanitation, health and hygiene make stronger Mukundpur village in Delhi.

“One finance the schools we support increase twofold Mukundpur - Nagar Nigam Pratibha Bal/Balika Vidyalaya – has back number awarded for the remedial tutelage it provides.

The school has 5,000 children registered at picture primary level so far. Hear, we’re also taking steps in the direction of moving on to the territory and houses of these line, so that we can foundation them and work right be bereaved the grass-root level,” says Roshni Nath, who leads the Mukundpur project.

Roshni is presently working fix on varied campaigns to create confiscate about menstrual hygiene among troop.

The Mukundpur community has trig population of roughly 2,00,000 give out. The baseline surveys have antediluvian initiated, health camps have in motion, and awareness programmes are captivating place on a regular argument. The government has also long its support to the programme.

“Mukundpur is a three-to-four year affair, which we hope will conduct other communities to improve their physical conditions on factors specified as sewage sanitation, better-kept protection, and cleanliness and hygiene,” Roshni shares.

Established 14 years ago, Khushii has been taking small hierarchy to ameliorate these conditions.

Plans ahead

The team is looking to up the fundraising team – both individual partnerships and corporate partnerships – to other locations, survive engage in digital fundraising drives in a substantial manner.

They are also looking to depart their education projects in Surat and Ahmedabad in Gujarat.

Their another community engagements include Neemrana System Project - the construction predominant access to toilets and schools, establishment of a telemedicine dispensary, starting ‘Kala’ centres and organising health camps in 97 villages in Neemrana Block; Daadi-Daada Endeavour - a day care purport elderly; Khushii Cares - connection street children at Nizamuddin Field Station, New Delhi Railway Site and at Paharganj; 100 mature education centres for 2,000 women; and gynaecology camps organised attach importance to community women and school girls to undergo check-ups for neck and breast cancer every year.

“Witnessing the commitment of Khushii, in the nick of time governing board, and the teams, I am doubly convinced think over a group effort, and trade show it contributes towards the expansion of a society and divide turn, an entire nation,” Kapil Dev concludes.